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LONDON (Reuters) - A highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany, scientists said on Thursday, with cases in Europe and the United States raising the alarm worldwide.
Experts in China, part of a global network of laboratories racing to understand the sickness which killed a 17th victim overnight, said they had found the bug carried genes that made it resistant to several classes of antibiotics.
The United Nations said the strain had not infected people before but some consumers, especially in Germany, said they were nervous about eating raw vegetables.
With around 1,500 people in Germany already ill in one of the worst recorded outbreaks of E.coli, Russia prompted international recriminations by banning imports of fresh vegetables from Europe and accusing Brussels of sowing chaos by failing to give enough information about the outbreak.
The precise source of the outbreak is unknown, but scientists say studies so far suggest it is highly likely to be contaminated vegetables or salads in Germany.
"This E.coli is a new strain of bacteria that is highly infectious and toxic," said the Chinese scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen city.
At the World Health Organisation, the United Nations health watchdog, a spokeswoman said: "This strain has never been seen in an outbreak situation before."
E.coli infections can spread from person to person but only by what is known as the faecal-oral route. Health experts in Germany are advising strict hygiene regimes and recommending that consumers avoid eating raw salads and vegetables.
The outbreak is causing severe infections, mostly in female adults, and in a number of cases, serious complications affecting the blood and kidneys. Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), an unusual complication of some types of E.coli, has been diagnosed in hundreds of the cases.
Russia's ban on Thursday on all raw vegetables from the European Union prompted cries of protest from the Polish and Dutch governments and a rebuke from the European Commission.
Moscow had already banned imports of vegetables from Germany and Spain because of the infections, which German officials originally blamed on contaminated cucumbers imported from Spain before backtracking and apologising to Madrid.
Gennady Onishchenko, head of Russia's consumer protection agency, said the deaths showed the "much-praised European sanitary legislation...does not work," Interfax news agency reported.
In Germany, some consumers were worried the disease could even spread by human contact. A high-profile church event in the city of Dresden, attended by 120,000 people, was not serving raw vegetables altogether on Thursday, according to ZDF television.
"I noticed that there were no raw vegetables, which I found calming..." one attendee was quoted as saying.
Another participant added: "I've thought about what I can eat and what I can risk. Yesterday I noticed someone saying: yuk, there's lettuce on top of this."
In Moscow, shops prepared to dump EU vegetables and consumers expressed a mixture of scorn and pride at the ban. But some disagreed strongly, saying the threat was exaggerated.
"I am not afraid of buying vegetables from any country here," said pensioner Vyacheslav Yegorov, carrying a shopping basket filled with grapes and fresh vegetables. "This thing will blow over and be forgotten tomorrow."
Spain is threatening legal action over the crisis. It wants compensation for its farmers, who say lost sales are costing them 200 million euros ($287 million) a week and could put 70,000 people out of work.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero accused the European Commission of being slow to act and said Germany "should know that it has an overall responsibility to other states in the European Union".
"We shall ask for very forthright explanations and...demand sufficient reparations," he told Spanish state radio.
Poland, which along with France and Germany is one of Europe's biggest exporters of fruits and vegetables to Russia, said Moscow's move was "excessive compared to the danger", while the Netherlands, famous for its mass-production of salad crops such as lettuce and tomatoes, described it as a major blow.
"After the collapse of the German consumer market, sales to Russia are now also impossible," the Dutch junior minister for economic affairs, agriculture and innovation Henk Bleker said.
EU countries exported 594 million euros ($853 million) worth of vegetables to Russia last year while EU imports of vegetables from Russia were just 29 million euros, EU data show. It was not clear what proportion of that was raw.
German officials have said there is "still is no indication of a definable source" for the outbreak and scientists are working around the clock to try to pinpoint it.
The contamination source is highly like to be somewhere in Germany, since all cases of infection are there or linked to it.
The WHO said it had also been notified of cases in Austria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Britain. EU officials have said three cases have also been reported in the United States.
Almost all the cases are in people who had recently visited Germany. Many patients have been hospitalised, the WHO said, with several needing intensive care, including dialysis due to kidney complications.
Health experts say they are shocked by the outbreak, which is on a scale never seen before in the region. HUS frequently leads to kidney failure and can kill.
Whilst most strains of E.coli do not cause disease, some strains including this one are able to attach tightly to the wall of the intestines and produce toxins.
Stephen Smith, a microbiologist at Trinity College in Dublin said this strain appeared "to be a hybrid of two different E. coli types, which are nasty themselves".
The hybrid strain also contains the Shiga-like toxin from Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, he said. This toxin binds to and damages kidney cells and can lead to potentially fatal HUS.
The Chinese scientists said the bacterium they identified was closely related to another E.coli strain called EAEC 55989 which has previously been found in Africa and is known to cause serious diarrhea.
(Additional reporting by Filip Kochan in Warsaw, Gilbert Kreijger in Amsterdam, Annika Breidthardt and Eric Kelsey in Berlin; Alissa de Carbonnel and Steven Gutterman in Moscow, Raquel Castillo in Madrid, Foo Yun Chee in Brussels and Barbara Lewis in Geneva; writing by Kate Kelland; editing by Maria Golovnina)
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The Zap Gun is the 29th weapon available in shop, costs 175,000 and is unlocked at level 50. It boasts high Damage, moderate Agility, excellent Range and Accuracy. It is currently the most expensive cash weapon in the Game.
This gun, despite having high Damage and very long Range, does not have auto aim, and because the gun's beam is pretty thin, you have to be skilled enough to aim properly while firing, similar to real-world fighting. When firing at long to medium range stay put and aim carefully not to waste your ammo because it does take a while to reload. It can take quite a while to take out an opponent if you aim at the body, but if you aim at his head, his Health drops extremely fast, killing him in a mere 0.5 seconds. Shooting at his body takes about 2-4 seconds to kill, fast enough to kill Revolver players before they kill you, granted that you don't miss a single shot.
This gun's weakness lies in its close battles capabilities. Even though it has a huge ammo suplly, it has no auto-aim. Furthermore, after the Easter Update, the Zap Gun now possesses the ability to slow a target, making this weapon a skill reducing weapon.
Overall a decent weapon for the most expensive cash weapon in the game.
Here is a guide on how to use this weapon efficiently.
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Weapon Analysis
- The Zap Gun inflicts high Damage per shot.
- Decent fire rate.
- High ammo capacity (100).
- The laser can travel at very long distances.
- Very accurate when standing still.
- Able to freely make headshots without the interference of auto-aim. (Please note they are not one kill headshots)
- The Zap Gun doesn't have an auto-aim unlike most automatic weapons, making it difficult to hit targets unless you're good at it.
- When looking around, the laser will not go towards the direction where you're facing, making long ranged kills harder to acquire.
- Expensive weapon.
- Reload is a bit long.
- Can be nerfed by Ghostbusters Jacket and A.S.P. Armor, making the weapon barely useless.
- The Zap Gun's appearance is similar to one of the 'instant kill' weapons found in an indie game called ZP2K.
- The reload animation looks rather odd as the player's character hits the body of the weapon with their fist four times rather then pulling out the empty energy cell by hand.
- The view of the weapon in the shop has been changed with the Ghostbusters update.
- During the Ghostbusters 30th Event the Zap Gun got a new Skin which paints it with yellow and black stripes.
- The Zap Gun actually has quite a low RoF (100 rounds/13 seconds or 7.629 rounds/second) for an automatic weapon, so don't expect to spray and pray as much as you wanted to.
- If all shots are headshots, it requires only 4-6 shots, if the enemy does not wear any gear that gives resistance towards Energy-Based Weapons.
- The Zap Gun and the Proton Gun are both weapons commonly used to have fun or to make a party.
- The Zap Gun needs 1 bullet to explode Exploding Barrels, which means it deals the most Damage per shot for an automatic weapon.
- Chase used to use this gun with the proton gun and shoot to the sky in the game which is very beautiful.
- The reload is similar to the Proton Gun.

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A discrete stochastic variable $X$ is defined as the number of eggs laid by a bird at a certain time. Depending on the specie of the bird, the Poisson constant for this distribution is $\lambda = \lambda_1$ or $\lambda_2 $. What is $\text {Pr}(X = k)$?
Am I crazy to think that it is the sum of the Poisson functions on both constants?


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Time Warner Cable announces 200 new Milwaukee jobs
Time Warner Cable announced Friday it is adding 200 new full-time jobs to its downtown Milwaukee location.
The new employees will work as retention representatives
The first 70 jobs are posted online. To apply, or for more information, candidates can go to http://jobs.timewarnercable.com and then click on "locations" to view the Milwaukee jobs.
Additional jobs will be posted in batches of up to 25 between now and August to accommodate the need to train employees in consecutive classes.
"In addition to expanding the size of our workforce, we will need to triple the number of leaders in this group over the next year, so there is definite opportunity to move up," said Chuck Parshall, vice president of sales in Wisconsin.
Time Warner Cable offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, a matched 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and courtesy services.


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Welcome aboard!
This is a small site dedicated to my time with the band Captain Bogg & Salty. My name is Lucas, although you might know me better as Mr. Filibuster. I played bass guitar with the band for about eleven years, and enjoyed every minute of it.
I'm not in charge of the main Captain Bogg & Salty website, and this isn't the "official" site. I hope you enjoy your visit, and please drop a line anytime.


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China and Labor: Apple's Not the Only Problem, But Is It the Only Solution?
Feb 9, 2012 5:00 AM PT
I found CNN's recent report on Foxconn's poor working conditions at a manufacturing plant (aka "manufacturing city") in China to be astoundingly irritating. Not because they used "Apple" in the headline and focused on the iPad to snag attention. I was irritated because the story, both in print and the video version, totally missed obvious points in order to try to paint Foxconn working conditions as terrible.
The article gets off to a lazy start with its headline, "Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture." This sounds a lot like working for Apple in the United States. Or Oracle. Or Microsoft. Pick any tech giant in a highly competitive environment and there's going to be a lot of long hours. And some of these companies even have nasty and mean dictators masquerading as CEOs.
So far into this story, I'm mildly annoyed, but when the only source turns out to be an 18-year-old college student snagging a one-month job, I'm thinking, "This is the best CNN can do? CNN represents some of the brightest, most dedicated journalists in the world, and they're piling on Apple for headlines?"
The young woman would talk, but not go on record with her real name, so CNN called her "Miss Chen." She was willing to talk about Foxconn but offered little real detail. In fact, it sounded like her job was a perfect starter job for a young woman -- bad, sad and an incentive to go to college and find something better.
But How Bad?
As a poor college student, Miss Chen took a one-month position at Foxconn with promises of great benefits and little overtime. As it turned out, she got overtime -- 60 working hours a week -- and few great benefits. So maybe she was lied to. As near as I can tell, this sounds like an awful lot of American jobs, particularly factory jobs, as well as all sorts of other kinds of jobs. Most of the people I know who don't have jobs in government (state, city or federal) tend to work more than 40 hours a week, if they don't have second jobs, and many of these workers are on a flat salary, so overtime pay is nonexistent.
But I kept reading.
Turns out Foxconn has surveillance cameras, expects obedience out of its million-plus employees, and fires those who don't like their jobs. Hmm. Sounds familiar enough.
Near the end of the article, she says, "It's so boring, I can't bear it anymore. Every day is like: I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It is my daily routine, and I almost feel like an animal."
And when asked why humans do machine-like work at Foxconn, she said, "Well, humans are cheaper."
Miss Chen, apparently, was putting stickers on iPad screens.
I Don't Get It
I get how plenty of news outlets and bloggers, etc., seem quite happy to jump on Apple's supply chain working environments in countries with cheap labor. The equation is simple: Apple + Controversy = Page Views = Advertising Revenue = Writers/Reporters Get to Keep Their Jobs. That's irritating enough, and I'm guilty of it myself, though I tend to focus on the positive, what's cool or interesting about Apple or the products it produces. Heck, I'm an unabashed Apple product enthusiast. So what don't I get? How Miss Chen's experience is terrible.
As near as I can tell, it's not. More to the point, it's probably good that she got the job and had a terrible experience. Bad jobs can give you clarity and act as an incentive.
When I was putting myself through college, I worked multiple part-time jobs to get the flexibility I needed to go to school, and in the summers I regularly worked massive overtime six days a week in a hard, dangerous and labor-intensive industry (logging) to earn money for school. In fact, I started working in the woods when I was in high school. Long, repetitive, boring hours. Rain, hail or wicked hot sunshine. Over five summers, I had no fewer than a dozen hazardous situations in which I might have been killed or seriously maimed had I been less lucky or less quick. Falling trees, tumbling rocks, missteps near cliffs, snapping cables, swinging culverts and shifting logs with running chainsaws. I was happy to have the job. And if I complained? I probably would have been laughed at ... or fired. When I stopped doing that, I worked multiple part-time jobs while attending college and took out school loans, too.
Like Chen, all these jobs did was reinforce the fact that I needed to go to school and become a knowledge worker, not a laborer.
It doesn't sound like her job was much worse than many we have in America, say, at a chicken slaughterhouse.
Why Do We Need to Lean on Apple?
Next, I was full of righteous outrage. (Just a little, but a little righteousness is usually not a good thing.) Why? We can lean on Apple, but why isn't anyone getting after China here? This is the Chinese business model -- the country's best resource is a combination of cheap, plentiful labor with factory upon factory ready to rock and roll with whatever the rest of the world needs. If the Chinese can't be bothered to care about their own people, why do we have to?
And if the Chinese government doesn't seem to care about the little people, why doesn't Foxconn step up and do a better job? Actually, despite some high-profile suicides and the collective suicide bargaining chip used by 150 or so workers at a Foxconn facility that makes Xbox 360s, Foxconn might be a better place to work than some nearby manufacturing facilities.
Then I'm still indignant -- and really tired of seeing all the bandwagon blog and news stories pointing to the CNN story cluttering up my online experience -- and I'm thinking, "Great. If Apple keeps getting all this bad press, when are they going to invest in more robots for automation and simply remove the need to have humans doing some of these jobs anyway? How is that going to help hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers? Isn't a job better than no job?"
After I cooled down, I remembered reading about Steve Jobs and President Obama and some articles and musings about Apple hiring more Americans. The problem was finding enough skilled (and scalable) labor. Then I remembered the New York Times article from late January that I only skimmed: "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work." I found it again and read it. It covers the economics and business reasons for outsourcing manufacturing to Asia. Great article. It also managed to point out that Apple's success has also led to some coveted Apple Store retail jobs (go Geniuses!) as well as created a whole industry around building mobile apps.
But I Couldn't Stop There
If I had been able to stop digging, I would have been able to continue living in a less complicated world. But I thought, "If the rich bastards at Foxconn don't care about their employees, who does? Isn't it the responsibility of a people's government to step into a situation that's bad for the country and fix it? Then I remembered that these factories are in the middle of the world's largest authoritarian regime ... what do we expect, really? Isn't this the country that let a toddler get run over in the street and left her lying there to die?
I thought, what if Apple could do some good? What if Apple has the power to do good ... and simply ignores the opportunity? Is there cosmic karma that handles this sort of thing, like if you see a lost child in the park and simply keep walking and talking on your iPhone because a lost child isn't your responsibility?
Apple could. The company's official statement in response to the issues at Foxconn is this: "We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made. Our suppliers must live up to these requirements if they want to keep doing business with Apple."
That's all well and good, but what if Apple could be a cultural force that could try to change how Chinese workers see themselves and the world they live in? Can the guys running one of the world's largest and most profitable corporations actually be leaders for the good of humanity? Or can they only end up leading us more deeply into a dystopian existence?
It Gets Worse
While Foxconn seems to be responsible for producing a mere 40 percent of the world's electronic goods, might this huge company represent just a small bit of the huge Chinese workforce? Maybe things are better or worse in China. We don't really know. Then I read The New York Times' "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad." It's a scathing indictment, but it also didn't mention all the accidents that happen on the job in the United States. The difference, perhaps, is the perception that no one with any power really cares about Chinese workers.
Last of all, I found a radio excerpt of Mike Daisey's popular one-man monologue show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." Daisey actually visited Foxconn, and his portrayal is amazing. You can listen to a radio excerpt or read the transcript of a section, but either way, it might change how you think about your electronic gadgets. Daisey has a way of articulating that the Foxconn way is something different than the sort of things we experience in crappy jobs elsewhere.
And then, on his blog, in response to a Q&A, Daisey makes what I think is his most important point:
Q: How much of what we see at Foxconn is steeped in Chinese culture? Chinese politics?
Not as much as one might think ... what is important to understand about Foxconn is that it is a Taiwanese company, and the tension between Taiwanese management and Chinese labor is part of its equation. Culture and politics inform any situation, but this one is informed more by the economic pressures that drive these workers into the cities to make a new life for themselves.
As much as I think about this topic, I still don't believe that fixing these problems is Apple's responsibility. And yet, Apple might be the only company with enough clout (and money) to lead by example and make serious changes.


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I've heard folks order it by name, Bauernfrühstück, but that was mostly a long time ago. For the rest of us, it's German farmer's breakfast, a hearty repast you can dream about and then experience right out of bed.
I've heard folks order it by name, Bauernfrühstück, but that was mostly a long time ago.
For the rest of us, it's German farmer's breakfast, a hearty repast you can dream about and then experience right out of bed.
Years ago, every breakfast restaurant here worth its toast offered these "German eggs." We still had large numbers of first-generation German immigrants. They were hard workers, and they demanded it.
My great-grandmother would make it for us, prompting my great-grandfather to speak confounding German all morning. She always had cottage cheese with a dollop of apple butter on the top, but held it until Pops roared, "Wo der Hüttenkäse ist?"
He then would slather ketchup over every inch of his farmer's eggs. I have no idea how he could still be standing afterward.
A farmer could work all morning with this potent fuel. It combines potatoes, vegetables, ham and cheese in one dish. Oh yes, with scrambled eggs.
There's no trick to it, besides making sure the potatoes and vegetables are done without overcooking the eggs. Do this by first boiling the potatoes and sautéing the veggies.
Note that this is a peasant dish, so the vegetables should be rough-chopped. This gives them more bite. To be terribly authentic, cook in a cast-iron skillet.
My family's recipe calls for quartering the potatoes. I like them sliced and covering the bottom of the skillet. It's easier to make sure the potatoes are done, and you get some in every bite.
There's no set ingredients list. It depends on what you have in the fridge. You could use bacon or cooked sausage for the ham; celery, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes or whatever for the veggies. The eggs and potatoes are the only musts.
Eat this with thick slices of home-baked bread and coffee strong enough to raise the hair on your neck.
I must have the Hütten¬käse, and don't forget the apple butter. But for heaven's sake, hold the ketchup.
3 medium red potatoes
3 tablespoons bacon fat or olive oil
1 cup chopped green and white onions including green tops
1 cup roughly chopped bell peppers
1/2 cup Muenster cheese, diced
1 to 2 cups chopped ham
4 eggs, scrambled
Salt and pepper to taste
Ketchup (very optional)
Peel and slice the potatoes widthwise. Add to boiling salted water. Cook for 10 minutes, or until the potatoes are just done. Drain and rinse in cold water.
Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil or fat in a large iron skillet on medium heat. Add the vegetables (not the potatoes) and sauté for five minutes or until tender. Remove to a warm plate.
Add a tablespoon of fat to the skillet and line with potato slices. Brown the potatoes slightly. Add vegetables, ham, cheese and scrambled eggs, distributing the eggs throughout.
As the eggs firm, turn off the heat and allow to finish. Serves 4.
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My smart phone forecasts thunderstorms for next Friday, the 13th by the way, here in the 757. If they don't materialize, and if you're among Virginia Tech's football faithful, then I suggest an evening at Darling Stadium.
The annual Virginia High School Coaches Association all-star game returns to Hampton that night with five Hokies signees on the roster.
Receiver Thomas Smith (Lafayette High), safety Desmond Frye (Thomas Dale) and linebacker Deon Clarke (L.C. Bird) are scheduled to play for the East. Running back/linebacker Trey Edmunds (Dan River) and quarterback Brenden Motley (Christiansburg) headline the West squad.
Smith is prepping this season at Fork Union Military Academy, while the others are enrolled at Virginia Tech.
Summer school is the norm for incoming college football freshmen, and those obligations, combined with injury concerns, often preclude their all-star participation. But for those who want to compete, technology allows for online monitoring of classes while in Hampton.
Among the five, Edmunds and Clarke were the most regarded in high school. The son of former NFL and All-ACC (Maryland) tight end Ferrell Edmunds, Trey had 124 tackles as a senior, while also rushing for 1,324 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The West roster lists him as No. 3, a clever choice, and a running back. So he could be in the same backfield with Motley, a dual-threat quarterback who led Christiansburg to the state championship game.
None of Virginia's signees is scheduled to compete next Friday.
Last year, Tech walk-on Griffin Hite, the son of former Hokies assistant coach Billy Hite, was the West's co-defensive MVP.
The 2009 game, a wild, 38-31 East victory, showcased several Hokies recruits. Logan Thomas accounted for two touchdowns, one running and one passing, Antone Exum caught a scoring pass, Cody Journell kicked a field goal, and Tyrel Wilson was the East's defensive MVP.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have signed former Kansas defensive end Toben Opurum as an undrafted free agent after trying him out as a fullback during rookie minicamp.
The Chiefs announced the move in a statement Friday.
The 6-foot-1, 250-pound Opurum began his career with the Jayhawks as a running back, gaining 554 yards and scoring nine touchdowns during the 2009 season. He moved to linebacker as a sophomore and played defensive end the past two seasons, making 109 tackles and 6 1/2 sacks in his career.
Kansas City has turned over the fullback position this offseason, trading cornerback Javier Arenas to the Arizona Cardinals for Anthony Sherman and drafting Braden Wilson out of Kansas State.
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(Representation of buyers in a short sale counts for nothing in terms of short sale experience since all the approval action goes on with the listing side.)
The listing agent needs to know how to escalate a deal to get an approval. Some loan servicers – BOA immediately comes to mind – reflexively decline short sales and, I believe, manufacture values, notwithstanding what their appraisal or BPO says, hoping to extract the maximum dollars from the buyer and agents.
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This is how the lenders ultimately decide whether or not to approve a deal. Absence of this is means you are pretty much throwing darts with a blindfold on.
8. Has the Sea Isle City property been priced appropriately?
I still see short sale listings where it is obvious the property is priced at a number which would pay off all of the liens. Ridiculous. Don't even think about showing your buyers this property.
9. Do the agent comments say something like "commission paid on net sales price" or "50% to selling agent of approved commission"?
Either this agent is clueless or they don't know how to handle commission negotiations with the lender. This is a run away, don't walk situation.
10. Does the agent purport to be an expert?
I would be very, very wary of anyone who purports to be an expert. The only experts I am aware of are the guys sworn in as such in court rooms. We have 10 to 15 short sales in various stages of approval all the time and I see new twists on servicer tactics and processes every day – and there are dozens of servicer representing hundreds if not thousands of different investors. And don't forget HAMP or HAFA.


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It wasn't until I was drying my hair that I realized it wasn't dark brown like the picture. It was black. Not a nice black, like actress Jennifer Connelly's hair, but black like on a teenage girl who's trying to tick off her parents with her in-your-face hair, 47 facial piercings and a neck tattoo that says, "Back off!"
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When browsing through the hair-coloring section in the grocery store, all I had in mind was the fact that I was tired of the reddish-brown dye I'd been using since gray hair first started to appear. I wanted darker hair, similar to the mom from the "Gilmore Girls," Lorelai Gilmore.
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While in the store, I studied the sides of various dye packages where photos of several different shades of hair appeared adjacent to photos of how each shade would purportedly look after the dye was applied. I selected the shade I thought would transform my hair into Lorelai's, adding a dash of change to my new year.
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"That's [dramatic, uncomfortable pause] really dark," my husband said when he came into the bathroom. He was trying hard to be diplomatic. I could tell. As his lips calmly mouthed the words, "It's not that bad," his face was shouting, "I'm married to a middle-aged, female version of Marilyn Manson!"My three kids were less restrained when they saw the hair, likely creating an indelible childhood memory. "You look ridiculous!" the 7-year-old boy said, just before his 10-year-old brother tagged me with the nickname, "Goth Mommy" and chuckled in a nervous kind of way, like he was afraid I'd go all vampire on him. My 10-year-old daughter said she couldn't believe what I'd done. "I look like a fool!" I whined as I stared at my own reflection, fretting about how pale my skin now looked next to the raven hair from hell. "Even if you do look like a fool, I still love you anyway," she said. "I look like a fool?" I screamed. The girl then wisely fled the room. Attempts to repair the damage on my own were futile, so I sulked in front of the TV for the rest of the day like the sullen teen I was inadvertently impersonating. An emergency hair salon appointment the following day didn't provide much relief. "This is really dark," the hair stylist said. "This color really soaked in there good." Despite my desperation, she recommended that I skip the harsh chemical treatment to try to remove the black dye (she wouldn't guarantee a successful removal), saying it would seriously damage my hair. She used a series of shampoos to strip away some of the coloring and said if I used them daily, my hair would lighten. Somewhat. As she styled my hair, she periodically muttered, "Goth Mommy," then laughed as she shook her head. The boys, who accompanied me to the salon, scampered over to my chair to see if I looked "normal" again. "It doesn't look any different!" the 7-year-old declared. "Sure it does," the stylist said, pointing out how, if you looked at some sections of hair, on the back of my head, under intense overhead lighting, used binoculars, and squinted, you could see a hint of brown. I was told I'd have to wait a few weeks before I could attempt a full-fledged "Goth Mommy Be Gone" dye job. In the meantime, I'd have to endure the giggling from the kids and my brother's latest nickname for me, "Slick," though I think it needed the prefix: Not-So. Next time, I'll adhere to my friends' advice to leave the coloring to the professionals. Meredith O'Brien, author of "A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum," blogs about parenthood at the Picket Fence Post (wickedlocalparents.com/picketfencepost) and writes about pop culture at Suburban Mom (suburbanmomnotes.blogspot.com).


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Nashville, TN -- Songwriter and Bakersfield Sound architect Red Simpson will take a seat at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum on Saturday, February 23, as the latest subject of the quarterly programming series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters. The 1:30 p.m. in-depth interview and performance, held in the museum's Ford Theater, is included with museum admission and free to museum members. The program will be streamed live at CountryMusicHallOfFame.org.
The 90-minute program, hosted by Museum Editor Michael Gray, will include recordings, photos and film clips from the museum's Frist Library and Archive. Seating for the program is limited, and program passes are required for admittance. Immediately following, Simpson will sign limited edition, commemorative Hatch Show Print® posters. (Visit the museum's website for complete admission and signing details.)
Some call him the Bard of Bakersfield. Bob Dylan calls him the Forgotten Man of the Bakersfield Sound. However he is known, Red Simpson is an important player and ambassador for the West Coast country music scene. Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, the most well-known pillars of the Bakersfield Sound, recorded more than 40 of Simpson's original songs. Roy Clark, Alan Jackson, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Wanda Jackson, Johnny Paycheck, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam and many others have also recorded Simpson's songs. Simpson also enjoyed success as a recording artist, most famous for his truck-driving songs.
Born March 6, 1934, in Higley, Arizona, Joe "Red" Simpson was the youngest of 12 children in a musical family. When he was three years old, the family moved to California in hopes of finding work as cotton and fruit pickers. At age 13, Simpson bought his first guitar—for $6.00—with the money he earned picking cotton.
Simpson served on a naval hospital ship—the USS Repose—during the Korean War. In his downtime, he wrote songs and formed a country band called the Repose Ramblers. After his stint in the Navy, he returned to Bakersfield. Knowing that picking cotton was not the life for him, Simpson set his focus on a music career. He played the Bakersfield honky tonks, spent some time in Los Angeles recording studios and continued to write songs.
In the early 1960s, Simpson signed with Cliffie Stone's Central Songs Publishing Company, and began co-writing with Buck Owens early in the singer's career. Their collaboration yielded such songs as "Someone to Love," "The Kansas City Song," "Close Up the Honky Tonks," "Gonna Have Love" and "Sam's Place," Simpson's first chart topper.
Merle Haggard, himself one of country music's greatest songwriters, also recorded a number of Simpson's songs including "You Don't Have Very Far to Go" and "Bill Woods from Bakersfield."
By 1965, Simpson had established himself as a prolific songwriter. He had recorded a few singles for a few small labels but had not actively pursued a singing career. Capitol Records' Ken Nelson was looking to get in on the truck-driving trend that was sweeping country music. When Merle Haggard declined to record a trucking album, Nelson called Simpson and offered him a record deal. His album Roll, Truck, Roll included the title track (written by Tommy Collins), "Truck Driver's Blues" (Ted Daffan) and several Simpson-Owens trucking-themed co-writes. The album reached the Top 10 on the Billboard country album chart.
Throughout the late '60s and early '70s, Simpson continued to garner recognition for his truck-driving songs—including his most notable recordings, "The Highway Patrol," written with Dennis Payne and Ray Rush, and "I'm a Truck," written by Bob Stanton. Simpson left Capitol Records in 1974 and retired from touring in 1984.
In the mid-1990s, Junior Brown charted Simpson's "The Highway Patrol," and the pair recorded two duets: "Semi-Crazy" and "Nitro Express." As he has done for almost 20 years, Simpson continues to perform weekly at The Trout nightclub in Bakersfield.
This program is presented in support of the museum's exhibition The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country. Bakersfield Sound is supported by the Academy of Country Music, Ford Motor Company Fund and SunTrust. Additional support was provided by Buck Owens Production Company. Promotional support is being provided by media partners Great American Country Television Network and Cumulus Media.
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A new race of bloodthirsty creatures are about to descend upon the Brikverse - the Pwnies. They believe that friendship is magic, magic is power, power is subjugation, and subjugation is warfare. So they befriend their enemies through massive warfare and killing.
There are three distinct breeds of Pwnie. First there are the Horny Pwnies. These Pwnies have a (constantly hard, in case you were wondering) horn in their forehead, with which they make magic happen.
To the left we see The Great and Bighorned Dixie, who hides her horn under a wizard hat. When asked why, she replied "It's because my horn is so big, it would drive everyone crazy if they saw how big it is. It's not because my horn is tiny or anything. Oh no."
To the right is Scarcity, a Pwnie with massive and inexplicable sex appeal. She has been known to seduce not only Pwnies, but also minifigs, dogs and even dragons. How such physically different species can feel attraction to her is a mystery.
Here are a couple of Kamikaze Pwnies. Seldom long-lived, the job of these winged Pwnies is to crash into the enemy lines from the sky, taking as many foes with them as possible.
To the left is Offensive Hooves, whose fondness for ableist, sexist, racist, and homophobic humor makes everyone uneasy around her. This got her pulled from kamikaze duty and placed in the propaganda ops, allowing her to survive long enough for this photoshoot.
To the right is Flutterdie, a Pwnie adored by all animals. So adored, in fact, that she has been able to train them to kamikaze for her. And if some poor little animal can't fly on its own, it doesn't need to feel left out - Flutterdie will lift it up into the sky and drop it on the enemy! While conservative generals might consider this cowardice, no one can deny that Flutterdie's kill score is much higher than most kamikaze Pwnies (seeing how they rarely last more than one mission).
And finally, we get to the Redneck Pwnies. They are good at... uh... they make booze and get drunk a lot. And have big families. Yeah.
The one to the left is Appletack. She's your average Redneck Pwnie. Like all of them. She likes apples, booze, and hanging peaches from the closest tree.
The one on the right is Big Wackintosh. He's one of the rare male Pwnies - much like how the vast majority of minifigs are male, almost all Pwnies are female. Big Wackintosh is Appletack's brother, son, cousin, and sweetheart.
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Magic Bolts: (+3 CP) A Horny Pwnie can shoot bolts from its horn with the following profile: UR 3; Dam 1d6; Range 6"
Horny Magic: (+8 CP) A Horny Pwnie possesses Supernatural 2d6. Before the battle begins you must state the Cliché of each Horny Pwnie in your army to define what they can be used for. (Example Clichés: Dramatic Fashionista, Nerdy Bookworm, Lying Showoff...)
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Move: 10" flying
Armor: 4
Size: 2
Kick: (+2 CP) A Pwnie can kick with the following profile: UR 2; Dam 1d6; Range CC
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Officials set to announce $121 million funding for high-speed rail between New Haven and Springfield, Mass.
MERIDEN -- State and federal officials are set to announce $121 million in federal funding for a high-speed rail project between New Haven and Springfield, Mass.
In addition to Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who will announce the funding, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin support the 62-mile project.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
"Toto Sapore" 2001 (© Lanterna Magica)
In 2001 I got contacted by Lanterna Magica and Maurizio Forestieri (in Torino, Italy) to design a film based on a traditional napolitan story called Toto Sapore. It was great fun to create all the visual language for that film. Here are a few samples of that, four interior and exterior architectural studies for some of the characters locations.
And we are wrapping up a year... Happy 2011 to all of you!
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Again like in the 'Near Miss' case, since I spent quite some time going about details, here is the full illustration plus a few close ups.
I don't know if this will be my last post before Christmas... but just in case it is, Merry Christmas everybody! I hope you enjoy this time of the year in a nice and safe place with your loved ones.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Saying Hi
Just an improvised sketch to say 'Hi' with. It's been hectic around here lately, not much time to dedicate to this blog. Hopefully things will get a bit more relaxed around Christmas.
By the way, if you live in Southern California I hope you are managing to stay dry!
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
This crowd passed by my Cintiq. Next thing I knew they were gone...
(The more it goes, the more I love this tool by the way)
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Friday, December 03, 2010
Near miss
Near misses, how many of these do we have in life?... Hopefully none as dramatic as this one.
I spent quite a bit of time on the detail here, so I include the magnified sections to have the feeling it was actually worth it!
Have a good weekend everyone.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Newbie moving to Kadikoy... Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Newbie moving to Kadikoy... Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Turkey View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ArtsyTravellerJoined: 11 Apr 2011Posts: 5 Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:58 am Post subject: Newbie moving to Kadikoy... Hello everyone, I am a "newbie" teacher and I recently accepted a year-long contract with a school in Kadikoy. I have taught in Italy and also I am currently a teacher in America, so I am not afriad of any lack of experience, but more, I am interested about the area. I have been to Istanbul before, merely for travel, and fell in love with the city...but I know working is different than just touring a city! Can anyone advise how Kadikoy compares to other areas of Istanbul as far as prices and living expenses? When I travelled to Istanbul before I stayed mainly on the Euro side. Are there also lots of expat communities/ places to find other teachers? Also, is it a more conservative area? I am female and so I want to be cautious about how I dres... I know these are broad questions, but I would appreciate advice as I get ready for the move! Back to top coffeespoonmanJoined: 04 Feb 2005Posts: 512Location: At my computer... Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:29 am Post subject: Don't worry - you're going to a great place. It's not as crazy of a party as Taksim, or as historic and full of culture, but it's a smallish, friendly neighborhood with a comparatively nice amount of green area, a great seaside, plenty of great bars, cafes, and restaurants, a very young/alternative feel, and more than enough expats to mingle with if you're looking for that. I lived there for four years, and it was my favorite place in Istanbul. Back to top wardawJoined: 14 Feb 2010Posts: 14 Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:27 pm Post subject: coffeespoonman wrote: or as historic and full of culture I'd have to take exception to this part, csm. Kadikoy, once called Chalcedon, is actually 17 years older than Istanbul. The Oracle at Delphi told the founder of Byzantium, Byzas, to found his city opposite "the land of the blind." Byzas took the meaning to mean the people of Chalcedon because they would have to be blind to settle there when across the Bosphorus, the land was so much better. In Christian history, the Council of Chalcedon was the Fourth Ecumenical, which tried to settle Christian dogma and led eventually to the Great Schism into East and West churches. Kadikoy, once had a mix of cultures from Anatolian Greeks, Sephardic Jews, and Armenian Christians as well as Ottoman Turks living all in the same areas; although, now, most of what is left of these communities are churches and synagogues, which are hard to determine if they are abandoned or not. The part of Kadikoy where I live, Ritim, across from the buses has loads of interesting architecture, although it sometimes resembles what I imagine Vienna might have looked like after World War II. Kadife Sokak, or Bar street, has some really cool bars with an urban alternative vibe to it. Transportation's good, once you figure out the ends and outs of the crazy system they have here. But, you know, it can also a traffic-congested, noisy, smoggy, crowded, garbage heap. Depends on what you like and where you live. Back to top coffeespoonmanJoined: 04 Feb 2005Posts: 512Location: At my computer... Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:43 am Post subject: Wardaw, you're absolutely right about that. Kadıköy is rich in history and culture. Even the bull, which is in the main intersection of Kadıköy and is the sort of default meeting point, represents the golden bull from which the golden fleece of Jason and the Argonauts fame was taken. The bull, which was the child of Poseidon and the nymph Theophane, helped the children of the cloud goddess Nephele, Phrixus and Helle, escape a wicked stepmother. According to the version of the myth that I heard, the bull landed in Kadıköy (then Chalcedon) when jumping over the Bosphorus. In fact, even the word Bosphorus is Greek for "Ox + river crossing". However, the history and culture aren't as visible in Kadıköy as they are on the European side. Kadıköy's history is mostly ancient history, and the traces have long since gone. Nearly all the museums, concert venues, art exhibitions, famous buildings, palaces, theatres, etc. are on the European side. For example, in the İstanbul Film Festival (going on right now), there are 7 venues. Only 1 (Rexx Cinema) is in Kadıköy. 5 are in the Taksim/Beyoğlu area, and 1 is in Nişantaşı (close to Taksim). Personally, I think Kadıköy is the best place in Istanbul to live. When I lived there, I was quite happy to go the European side once a month or so for cultural events or a night out dancing. In fact, I only moved to Europe to be closer to work, but if I ever come back to İstanbul, I'll seriously consider settling permanently in Kadıköy. Back to top aharbutJoined: 12 Jan 2006Posts: 19Location: Arizona,USA Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject: Hey Newbie to Kad Koy by any chance did you know and are you willing to pay for your own work visa which is $888! Back to top sheffinJoined: 18 Jun 2012Posts: 20 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Hey Newbie to Kad Koy aharbut wrote: by any chance did you know and are you willing to pay for your own work visa which is $888! You must be joking, 888 USD? Back to top parnettJoined: 29 Jun 2012Posts: 179Location: China Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:46 am Post subject: I lived in Kadikoy for a year, and have mixed feelings about it. Although it might be the best place on the Asian side, it is still dirty, noisy and very crowded. Apartments are expensive. There are lots and lots of bars and 50000 Turkish restaurants. It is a good vantage point for travelling to other parts of Istanbul by ferry. 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"Me neither." or "Me either"
Speaker A: I don't like going to the beach when it is cold outside. Speaker B: Me neither.
According to an english grammar website, speaker B is wrong. "me neither" should be changed to "neither do I" or "me either"
I see "me neither" used most frequently on the web. But I think I hear people use "me either" more frequently in speech. Which is correct? Why?
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There is a distinction between British English and American English. As language is primarily a means of communication it works when it is understand. Yet to answer the question I believe the use of 'neither' here would be attributed to American English.
I'm surprised that they're concerned with the neither and not the me. The me is an object, but to be a response to the first statement, it should be a subject. Anyway, object pronouns are starting to do the duty for both in America, so it's only "wrong" for those who are trying to Latinize English. I don't see what's wrong with neither though...
I started to think about this. This is what I thought about the "either" or "neither" situation.
First, neither "me either" nor "me neither" is a proper use of formal English and I think that is why there is so much confusion. I think that website I pointed you to is correct, and I think I can explain why.
You use either with a negative phrase, as in "I do not want to go either".
"neither" is essentially "not either", so you use it in a confirmitive of a negative as in "Neither do I"
So which is correct "me neither" or "me either"?
Example 1:
I can't wait for Christmas.
You could answer this:
"I can't either" or "Neither can I". Both are correct.
If you answer "Me either", the question is - what is the unstated verb phrase/clause?
It is the "can not" of the original statement. Since that is a negative, you should use "either".
If you answer "Me neither", you are changing the unsated verb phrase from "can not" to "can" as in "Neither can I". I think it is improper to do that.
Example 2:
I don't want to go to the store.
You could answer:
"I don't want to go either" or "Neither do I"
If you say "Me either", the unstated is "don't want to go to the store". As that is a negative statement, "either" is again, correct.
If you say "Me neither", you have changed the unstated phrase to "want to go to the store" as in "Neither do I want to go". But I think you should be affirming or negating what was said. "Me neither" does not do that, so I think it is incorrect.
You can't say me neither. What you want to say, ideally, is neither do I. If you don't wanna say that, say I don't, either, which explains why we must say me either and not me neither, in this particular case.
Anything but "me too"
American grammar websites and books tend to be very restrictive and authoritarian. We don't put up with that sort of rubbish down here (Australia).
Both are correct in American English.
Is either with a long e or long i just like tomato/tomato or is there a proper time to use the long e separate from using the long i
A quick check on the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary gives the EE pronunciation first, followed by "also" and the I pronunciation. So either is correct (heh, heh).
Seriously... I happen to be an American English speaker living in Texas, and I work for a multinational oil-industry company. The Americans and Norwegians seem to prefer EE while the Canadians and Scots seem to prefer I. One of my college roommates, a girl from Iran, used EE, while the other, a South-African with a Boer last name, used I. A boss I had several years ago who came from Mumbai used the I as well.
I would conclude that the I pronunciation is probably used more by people whose speech tends toward the British as spoken in England and her current and former territories.
Damn! I am so provincial. Of COURSE many of the United States are former English possessions (and it's there that you find the greatest acceptance of the I pronunciation in this country). Texas was never an English possession, though :)
Why is everyone debating the pronunciation? Andy was asking about 'either' versus 'neither.'
A Briton would hardly recognize the construction "Me either," which tends to be an exclusively American grammatical phenomenon in my experience. "Me neither" would be the preferred British expression.
Neither is incorrect. American English is American English and British English is British English. It seems useless to debate what it would be in a formal context, since it is hard to imagine in what formal context the phrase would be used.
Glenn: "Everyone" is not debating punctuation. I was simply attempting to answer Michelle's question.
Dave: Love your last para...very good breakdown of the right way to look at this... however, you may want to substitute "both can be considered correct" for "neither is correct," as you don't mean to say "either is incorrect." lol.
I mean "pronunciation," natch... still have not had my coffee this morning...
LOL. It didn't even occur to me that "Neither is incorrect" had a double-meaning in the context of this discussion. *Duh*
What I meant of course was that neither NEITHER nor EITHER is incorrect in the expression "Me n/either". I didn't mean that NEITHER was incorrect in the context of "Me n/either". Do you understand that now? Me neither. I mean either. Oh f*ck it.
LOL!....The last thing they're doing is being "pompous." They're showing there view on a certain grammar lesson. Which from what I know, in AMERICA, is always "me either." To an American(or at least me), "me neither" is somewhat childish...Kind of like "me shneither." If you were talking, especially formally, you would never(again in America) go out of your way to say me neither. That's just my opinion and observation. No need to get complacent and overjudgmental.
The difficulty is that Americans neither write nor speak English; they use American, a dialect based on English, but now far removed from it.
One has only to consider the abomination "gotten", an archaism which disappeared from English in the late eighteenth century, but was cocooned in America following the revolt against Britain, which resulted in the isolation of the United States from the remainder of the English-speaking world for several decades.
Some of the annoying, but fascinating developments of American, as opposed to English, are the rolled Rs which all Americans use, but which occur in very few areas in the UK, and not at all in other former British colonies, and the dialect's grating attempts at shortish As, of which there are two variants, that used in such words as "last", and that employed in "can't".
Apart from Canada, every other English-speaking nation eschews these odd pronunciations, and a long A is used except by those in Yorkshire and Lancashire and thereabouts, where a genuine short A, rather than a strangled cross between the two, is used for both words.
Yet the Yanks pronounce "father" correctly; do any of the more educated Americans ever think about the idiocies of their spelling and pronunciation? Do any of them yearn to speak English?
Whoever just wrote that parody on linguistic imperialism and bigotry is a comic genius. :D
Aw, he's just letting off steam, as must all bags of hot air from time to time. ;D Self included (i.e. my latest protestant thesis against the industry-catholic style manuals).
I actually speak American English with an accent so "pure" that a professional linguist with the American military who I dated for a while said it was one of the things that attracted him. If Ken, who presumably would prefer to speak Norman French if he could get away with it, heard American English described as a "pure" anything, he'd probably spontaneously combust.
I think the example is correct. I was in the process of writing a script for a local news broadcast and I was curious which was the proper, "me neither" or "me either". I thought it was the second but I have often heard the first used and also have seen it typed online. But when I said it in my mind I thought something sounded...off. So I looked it up. It may not really be considered a big deal in most every day life, however, I do not wish to use improper english in matters that are meant to be taken seriously and which are professional. So I will be using the second.
My Husband and I get into this "me either" "me neither" discussion all the time. As I am an American, if he said, "I cannot wait for Christmas" I have always very naturally replied "me either". He always corrects this and supplies "me neither". (pompous ass?) LOL. I have always very naturally had a sense of this is a positive, excited, type statement when someone says it. Usually because of their gestures and expression. In my mind that requires a more positive type response so "me neither' just feels negative in my view.
As for the term "gotten"...........SO IT WASSSSSSSSSSSS included in English at one time? Maybe we Americans just moved before it died out over there! In my view just because you kicked a word out of your version of English doesn't mean it never existed as acceptable. The fact of the matter is all English was bastardized long before there were American English speakers. If you English speakers were still speaking the true queens tongue, before the rule books were written, and edited several times over, nobody would be complaining about who speaks correctly or incorrectly. We would all sound funny period! Language is language and there are subtle or profound changes between nations, tribes, colonies, races, etc. It all boils down to context and how something is being expressed physically and emotionally, whether or not you will understand it as it is conveyed. It's the expression that prompts the response. Another thing I do during this discussion of "me either/neither, when I say something like, neither "me neither or me either" is incorrect...I differentiate with " Neyether, neether nor eeither. is incorrect" So I even switch up the pronunciation phonetically. Which really drives my pompous ass of a husband nuts LOL.
the FORMAL way to use neither is... neither can i, neither do i or nor do i...
you use EITHER when a negative clause is implied.. for example i do NOT want to go to school EITHER.
NEITHER CANT be used when a negative clause is implied... for example, you CANT say: i do NOT want to go to school NEITHER.. that's wrong! the correct way to say it..NEITHER DO I, NOR DO I.
now it is common to use ME NEITHER or ME EITHER(they are BOTH informal like dont/do not and doesnt/does not) it is NOT just me neither*.. but still it is more acceptable to say me NEITHER as a short answer than me EITHER..
even though they are both used, EITHER was NOT meant to be used that way as me either ..just becuz people get lazy and just rather say me either(normal in american english) EITHER's correct use is to use it with sentences with negative clauses on it (dont, doesnt, isnt, im not, arent) NEITHER CANT be included in this cuz that would mean you are using double negation which is WRONG
but for the original question ... THEY both are informal but *me NEITHER* is still correct.. some people use me EITHER and even though people understand it and it's normal in american english to say it..GRAMMATICALLY correct the use of either is not for me either
I go with the general flow: 'me neither' is absolutely standard spoken English, but there are (formal) occasions when 'neither do I' would be more appropriate. But my main concern is 'me either', because there is no negative; it makes no sense to me. 'Not me either', though unidiomatic would at least make sense.
It seems however, that 'me either' is in common use in North America:
but the usually pretty laid-back Prof Paul Brians at WSU Common Errors sees it as an error:
Good day everyone!
My name is Tim, I'm from Moscow...
I've got a question about how should I write the following:
1. I can neither understand nor believe in what I saw..... (something)
1.1. I can't neither understand nor believe in what i saw.... (something next)
2 I would neither understand nor believe in what I saw..... (something)
2.2. I would't neither understand nor believe in what I saw..... (something)
I'm a little confusing about this... :-)
Thank's in advance
The first version of both examples is correct. In the second version of your examples you have a double negative. If you expand the contractions it becomes a bit more clear, i.e. "I would not neither understand nor believe in what I saw...". In addition to being incorrect, the double negatives would cancel each other out and change the meaning of the sentence.
"Me too" for positive repetitions.. "Me naither" for negatives.. lol
Both "me neither" and "me either" are correct. How can that be? They both are short forms. "Me neither" is short for "neither do I" while "me either" is short for "I don't either". Back in the olden days, we wouldn't hav put two said vowels together … like me + either. Thus we said "mine eyes" (e on mine is silent) or "mine eyen" rather than "my eyes/eyen" which is likely why most or many folks like "me neither" better. But that "rule" is not noted much nowadays.
Anent the "me" instead of "I", it's the old dativ form. We see it in "methinks" (It seems to me) from Old English "mē thyncth", from mē "to me" + "thyncth" — "it seems" (3rd person, sing.) from "thyncan" — seem; akin to, but sunder from, think).
Language changes and is transmitted orally. Saying something is "correct" or "incorrect" is incorrect. There is "accepted among certain people" and "not accepted among certain people." Language changes through "misuse," slang, solecism, malapropism, you name it. The prigs on here need to go relax somewhere nice and peaceful and stop school-marming the rest of us peeps ("peep" has entered the vernacular now, peeps).
In the context of:-
"Speaker A: I don't like going to the beach when it is cold outside.
Speaker B: Me neither (or Me either)"
I think that "nor" is preferable to "neither" or "either".
Whether it be "nor me" or "nor I" is a different story.
Ether is used to avoid a double negative people. that plane...that simple.
@Hairy Scot - "Nor I", would be pretty formal, I think. "Nor me" sounds more neutral to me. Some possible answers, in descending order of formality, the numbers are the number of hits in the British National Corpus (when followed by a comma or full stop):
Nor I. (12)
I don't either. (0)
Nor do I. (19)
Nor me. (16)
Me neither. (10)
I agree.
It is plain that we are on the same plane!
He didn't remember and neither did I.
I hadn't been to New York before and neither had Jane .
'I can't understand a word of it.' ' Neither can I .'
( informal ) 'I don't know.' ' Me neither .'
Neither do I or me neither are just like informal expressions, actually when someone say like " Me neither " it's the opposit of " Me either " just like that "n" means NOT, but it isn't right to say, " Me not either " Haha, please don't do that! Actually I think that neither do I is a little bit ugly to say, I don't like to use it...
I'm from England, and 'me either sounds odd to me. Nobody says it. I had to look it up, though, because I noticed someone online say 'either', then I questioned my way.
Maybe I should have just said 'nor did I... or I didn't either, because I know those are correct :-)
"Me neither" in almost all situations is being used to mean "I don't want to". Therefore, the word "me" is being used as the subject of the sentence and is incorrect, because "me" is the objective case.
I know that "me neither" sounds normal because it is commonly used. However, the question concerns what is correct English, so any of us who have come to this site recognize that there is a standard to which we comparing our speech.
Therefore, the concept that if a "native speaker uses it, then it must be correct" is abhorrent to me. If that were true, there would never be English classes in school and there would be no sites like this!
Nor I.
Found this on this website: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/meeither.html
...Inside a longer sentence, "me either" can be perfectly legitimate: "whole-wheat pie crust doesn't appeal to me either." But by itself, meaning "neither do I," in reply to previous negative statement, it has to be "me neither": "I don't like whole-wheat pie crust." "Me neither."
"I don't like whole-wheat pie crust."
"Nor do I."
well, actually, grammar rules themselves don't exist. there has never been any set rules, because the "rules" depend on how a majority decides to speak, and they change as the years go by. "ain't" used to be considered grammatically correct and was used by rich English folk, but when "commoners" started using it, they decided it wasn't proper English. this fact won't change how society treats grammar (like it's friggin LAW), but I feel like we should all be more lax and just use whatever feels right to us. I mean, soon, "I did good on my test" will be considered proper grammar.
"Me either" makes as much sense as "I could care less", I think both are dull-brained mistakes, possibly originally by a non-native English speaker, then subsequently accepted as good English. "Me neither" is rough, but at least logical: "nor I, either" just isn't heard these days, but "neither am/have I" is commonly heard and logical. Grammar: descriptive rather than prescriptive, but some howlers ought to be laughed out of court.
"Me either" makes as much sense as "I could care less", I think both are dull-brained mistakes, possibly originally by a non-native English speaker, then subsequently accepted as good English. "Me neither" is rough, but at least logical: "nor I, either" just isn't heard these days, but "neither am/have I" is commonly heard and logical. Grammar: descriptive rather than prescriptive, but some howlers ought to be laughed out of court.
"I drank beer in college, and I never assaulted anyone."
"Me either" or "Me neither" or "Me too".
"I am a man, and I never assaulted anyone."
"Me either" or "Me neither? or "Me too"?
It is difficult to pronounce "me either" because you have to pu in a glottal stop before the "e" unless "either" is the first word of the sentence. Without the glottal stop you must say "meether".
Me neither is in no wY a double negative. "Me" is not negative but "neither" IS!
In similar situations, I believe I use "me neither" . I've been paying attention to this for a while now, trying to see how others, choose to say that phrase. I've only heard "me either" once. And I had to stop and think for a second because it sounds so foreign to me. I'm dying to know the correct answer to this conundrum, though.
Please help !! Lol
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